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Muḥammad al-Idrīsī
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Also Known As Idrīsī, al-Sharīf al- • Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs al-Ḥammūdi al-Ḥasanī al-Idrīsī
Born 1100 • Ceuta • Morocco
Died 1165 or 1166
Notable Works “Kitāb nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq”
Leopold, Baron von Buch
German geologist
David Thompson
English explorer
Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie
French geographer
Antoine-Thomson d’Abbadie
French geographer
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Title page of Richard Hakluyt's The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation
Richard Hakluyt
British geographer
Powell, John Wesley
John Wesley Powell
American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Swedish statesman
Heinrich Barth
Heinrich Barth
German geographer and explorer
Rennell, detail from a pencil sketch by G. Dance, 1794; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Rennell
British geographer
Scylax Of Caryanda
Greek explorer
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville
French cartographer
Aaron Arrowsmith, engraving by T.A. Dean after a portrait by H.W. Pickersgill
Aaron Arrowsmith
British geographer and cartographer
Douglas Freshfield
British explorer
Bartholomew Columbus
Italian explorer
Giacomo Doria
Italian naturalist and explorer
Philippe Buache
French geographer and cartographer
Pedro Nunes
Portuguese geographer
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer

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